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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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‘…Democrats disproportionately vote by mail..’
Everyone knows mail-in ballots are needed for Democrat ballot harvesting. This ‘defense’ is comical.
No mail in ballots should be able to be counted after the polls close. That way the Democrats cannot see how many votes they need to win. Voter ID should be mandatory. Proof of citizenship should be mandatory. The Secretary of State should be required to notify the election board when someone changes the address on their license 2 business days after the change. Then the election board has 1 week to remove old address. Funeral homes should be required to notify election board when someone dies, like they do for social security. Nursing home residents should not be allowed… Read more »
This Illinois ‘law’ is grossly illegal and just another of the many ways that the vermin Democrats cheat in elections.
Is that why Texas, Utah, North Dakota, Alaska, North Carolina and Ohio all allow ballots to be counted after the Election as well? lol. Those darn democrats in Texas again. Nothing in the constitution or federal law stops ballots from being counted after election if they were cast on or before that day. If the courts ever rule differently, several states will need to change their policies not just Dem states. Unfortunately in this case, SCOTUS will not be deciding if states can count ballots cast before Election Day but received afterwards. I believe SCOTUS will only rule on the… Read more »
It would be a good thing to tighten up elections. I would go further.
Election on election day
Voting in person
Voter ID required
Deployed military may receive absentee ballots
Ballots must be in by the close of in-person voting on Election Day
Missing any of the above only enables the cheaters.
How much proven actual cheating has happened using the methods you wish to restrict?
Explain the Democrats’ claim that even Illinois’ gerrymandered districts might not be enough for them to win elections without a huge window for ballot harvesting.